ECHAM/MESSy Global Chemistry-Climate Model: EMAC

EMAC Description: EMAC application provides an assessment of climate change effects on pollution transport in support of Air Quality Policy formulation, pollution source apportionment and advise for impacts.

EMAC Training Material: The link below provides directions on how to Install and run MECCA Fortran to CUDA:

Medina Source-to-source KPP/EMAC to CUDA Pre-Processor

Credit: The Cyprus Institute

VIAM/NEA Regional Chemistry-Climate Model: VINE

VINE Description: VINE application provides improved research in process-level understanding considering to the coupling and feedbacks above the territory of Georgia: dust emission; dust ageing; dust deposition.

VINE Training Material: The training material provides tools (ncl, ncview) and software for the manipulation and visualization of the model's output. To view the material please click on the link below:

Tools and software for the manipulation and visualization of WRF-Chem output.

In addition we provide directions on how to set up and run the WRF (the meteorological driver) model and the WRF-Chem model over the south Caucasus domain. To view the material please click on the link below:

Setup and run WRF-Chem model over the south Caucasus domain.

Credit: National Scientific Library, Tbilisi State University

Tuning and Validation of the RegCM: TVRegCM

TVRegCM Description: TVRegCM provides adaptation and tuning of the RegCM model for the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria and development of a methodology able to predict possible changes of the regional climate for different global climate change scenarios and their impact on spatial/temporal distribution of precipitation, hence the global water budgets, to changes of the characteristics and spatial/temporal distribution of extreme, unfavorable and catastrophic events.

TVRegCM Training Material: The following document provides an example of a workflow on how one can use the RegCM code:

TVRegCM Description

The following presentation provides a description on the RegCM4 model code, installation, structure and main steps to run the model. In addition it provides a description of tools and software for models output manipulation, visualization and interpretation:

RegCM4 model code, installation and run

Accurate Prediction and Investigation of Weather and Climate in Armenia and South Caucasus (WRF): ClimStudyArmenia

ClimStudyArmenia Description: ClimStudyArmenia provides methods and methodologies for accurate weather prediction and climate change based on series of experiments, as mountainous terrain of the country, the apparent ruggedness of the terrain, the big difference between relative altitudes, as well as atmospheric general circulation features make it challenge.

ClimStudyArmenia Training Material: ClimStudyArmenia makes use of WRF model and Slurm; hence WRF and Slurm training material is provided below:

Installation of WRF

Usage of WRF

Usage of SLURM

Regional Climate Modelling (Middle East, North Africa) - WRF: RCM Mena-CORDEX

RCM Mena-CORDEX Description: RCM Mena-CORDEX provides very high horizontal resolution climate projections for the Middle East, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, improved climate change projections that will drive important vulnerability, impact and adaptation studies for the region, and resolution of smaller scale meteorological features critical for the realistic simulation of regional climate.

RCM Mena-CORDEX Training Material: A short manual for the view and use of NetCDF files output of the MENA-CORDEX Regional Climate Simulations is provided below:

Manual of RCM Mena-CORDEX datasets

Continuous Land Surface Temperature: Continuous_LTS

Continuous_LTS Description: Continuous_LTS provides an algorithm used to fill gaps in satellite data due to cloud cover.

Continuous_LTS Training Material: The link below provides a series of lectures on Google Earth Engine:

Training Material on Google Earth Engine

WRF-Chem Regional Climate Modelling: WRF–Chem

WRF–Chem Description: WRF-Chem application provides evaluation of the impact of windblown mineral dust on the climate of the Mediterranean region. Quantification of the direct, semi-direct and indirect effects of dust aerosols on the climate of the Mediterranean. Construction of a highresolution dust aerosols load hindcast for the study region.

WRF–Chem Training Material: The following link provides access to the webpage of the WRF-Chem where you can find, user documents, online tutorials etc:

https://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem/

AUTH contribution to EURO-CORDEX 0.44 regional climate projections: AUTH_WRF371M_EUR0.44

AUTH_WRF371M_EUR0.44 Description: AUTH_WRF371M_EUR0.44 Project provided a regional climate dataset which is an ensemble member produced by the Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in the framework of EURO-CORDEX.  The CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment) initiative operates under the auspices of the WCRP (World Climate Research Project) and aims to produce coordinated sets of regional downscaled projections worldwide. We use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (v3.7.1) to provide a hindcast simulation extending from 1990 to 2008, with 3hourly temporal analysis covering the European domain with 50 Km spatial resolution forced by the ECMWF-ERA-interim reanalysis. The same configuration of WRF371 is used to produce a regional climate projection driven by the NASA-GISS_E2 global circulation model for the years 1975 to 2099 under the RCP8.5 scenario.

AUTH_WRF371M_EUR0.44 Training Material: The following link provides access to the CORDEX archive specification which is followed by the data.

AUTH_WRF371M_EUR0.44 dataset description

Atmospheric Composition Impact on Quality of Life and Human Health (WRF/CMAQ): ACIQLife

ACIQLife Description: ACIQLife application provides the development of a methodology and performing reliable, comprehensive and detailed studies of the impact of lower atmosphere parameters and characteristics on the quality of life (QL) and health risks (HR) for the population in our country.

ACIQLife Training Material: A description of the ACIQ can be accessed through the link:

ACIQ Description

Dynamics, reactivity and spectroscopy of atmospheric chemical species: DRS-ACS

DRS-ACS Description: DRS-ACS provides development of novel computational and theoretical techniques for modeling of atmospherically relevant molecular species and processes. 

DRS-ACS Training Material: The following link provides training material for DRS-ACS on the usage of the xh-stretch used for the accurate and efficient computation of unharmonic frequencies of vibrational chromophores relevant to spectroscopid detection of atmospheric molecular species and their noncovalently bonded clusters:

Training Material for DRS-ACS

The following link provides a FORTRAN code for the purposes of the training:

xh-stretch.f

Operational Weather Research and Forecast Model: WRF-ARW

WRF-ARW Description: WRF-ARW application provides weather forecasting data and products to operational forecasters, researchers and the public as well as the development and fine-tuning of the model for the Cyprus region in order to achieve the best possible weather forecast accuracy.

WRF-ARW Training Material: User’s Guides for the Advanced Research WRF (ARW) Modeling System, Version 3 can be accessed through the link below:

WRF‐CHEM Advanced Research Modeling System Guide

An online tutorial for WRF-ARW can also be found in the link:

WRF‐ARW online tutorial page

High Resolution Climate Services for Southern Europe using regional climate modelling - COSMO: HIRECLIMS

HIRECLIMS Description: HIRECLIMS provides advance knowledge on the impact of lower boundary specification (soil type, soil moisture, vegetation cover) on the evolution of main atmospheric parameters in the SEEurope.

HIRECLIMS Training Material: The following file provides information on how to install, compile and run the CCLM (COSMO model in Climate Mode)

CCLM installation, compilation and run

The following file provides the description of the non-hydrostatic regional COSMO-Model (COSMO (COnsortium for SMall scale MOdeling))

Description of the non-hydrostatic regional COSMO-Model

Wind simulation over rugged terrain: OPENFOAM

OPENFOAM Description: OPENFOAM provides simulations of wind over terrain of Albania, with perspective to extend simulations for other atmospheric parameters and weather/climate problems. 
 

OPENFOAM Training Material: The file below provides a tutorial on OpenFOAM Wind Simulation:

OpenFOAM Wind Simulation

NCAR graphics

NCAR Graphics Description: NCAR Graphics is a Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization. NCAR Graphics is comprised of:

• a library containing over two dozen Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors, streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, and more
• an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, with both C and FORTRAN callable entries
• a math library containing a collection of C and Fortran interpolators and approximators for one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional data
• applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output
• map databases
• hundreds of FORTRAN and C examples 
• demo programs
• compilation scripts

NCAR Training Material: The following link provides access to NCAR graphics user page: NCAR graphics user page

Credit: NCL

(to open their website click here)

NCAR Command Language: NCL

NCL Description: NCL Command Language is a free interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data processing and visualization. NCL has robust file input and output. It can read and write netCDF-3, netCDF-4 classic, netCDF-4, HDF4, binary, and ASCII data. It can read HDF-EOS2, HDF-EOS5, GRIB1, GRIB2, and OGR files (shapefiles, MapInfo, GMT, Tiger). It can be built as an OPeNDAP client.

NCL Training Material: The following link provides access to NCL user page: NCL user page

Credit: NCL

(to open their website click here)

VisTrails

VisTrails Description:  VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that supports data exploration and visualization. 

VisTrails Training Material:  The following link provides access to the VisTrails Wiki: VisTrails Wiki

The following link provides access to an example of VisTrails Training Workflow: VisTrails Training Workflow

Credit: The Cyprus Institute

Weather Research and Forecasting Model: WRF

WRF Description: WRF is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed for both atmospheric research and operational forecasting applications. It features two dynamical cores, a data assimilation system, and a software architecture supporting parallel computation and system extensibility. The model serves a wide range of meteorological applications across scales from tens of meters to thousands of kilometers. The effort to develop WRF began in the latter part of the 1990's and was a collaborative partnership of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (represented by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the (then) Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)), the (then) Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

WRF Training Material

• The WRF model user page: WRF webpage
• The workflow for WRF Installation: WRF Installation Workflow
• The workflow for WRF check output and troubleshooting: WRF Check Output and Troubleshooting workflow   
• The user’s guides for the advanced research WRF (ARW) Modeling System: WRF‐CHEM Advanced Research Modeling System Guide
• Training material, user's guides and online tutorials for the WRF-CHEM: WRF‐CHEM model user page
• Documentation and training materials on the WRF model: WRF‐CHEM online tutorial page
• Tools and software for the manipulation and visualization of WRF-Chem output: Tools and software for the manipulation and visualization of WRF-Chem output

Regional Model: REGCM4

REGCM4 Description:  RegCM3 is comprised of a dynamical core (Grell and others, 1995), physics representing radiative transfer (Kiehl and others, 1996), largescale or dynamic precipitation (Pal and others, 2000), convective precipitation (Grell, 1993), a planetary boundary layer component (Holtslag and others, 1990; Holtslag and Boville, 1993), a biosphere component BATS (Dickinson and others, 1993), representation of open ocean (Dickinson and others,1993; Zeng and others, 1998) and closed water bodies (lakes) (Hostetler and Bartlein, 1990; Hostetler and others, 1993; Small and others, 1999) and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (Qian and others, 2001). These components are coupled and interactive.

RegCM3 requires time-dependent lateral (that is, vertical profiles of wind, temperature, and humidity) and surface [surface pressure and sea surface temperature (SST)] boundary conditions that are continuously updated every 6 hours of simulation. The lateral boundary conditions derived from GCM output are assimilated into the RegCM3 with exponential decay in space over 12 grid cells around the perimeter of the model domain. Boundary conditions for RCMs are derived by preprocessing saved GCM fields into a standard format that can be read into the model. Virtually all GCM history files differ both in their format and composition so it is necessary to develop specialized preprocessing codes to accommodate GCM-specific output.

The RegCM modeling system has four components: Terrain, ICBC, RegCM, and Postprocessor. Terrain and ICBC are the two components of RegCM preprocessor. Terrestrial variables (including elevation, landuse and sea surface temperature) and three-dimensional isobaric meteorological data are horizontally interpolated from a latitude longitude mesh to a high-resolution domain on either a Rotated (and Normal) Mercator, Lambert Conformal, or Polar Stereographic projection. Vertical interpolation for pressure levels to the σ coordinate sste of RegCM is also performed. σ surfaces ear the ground losel follow the terrain, and the higher-level σ surfaces ted to approximate isobaric surfaces.

RegCM4.0 is a later version of RegCM. It has been designed by International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. It provides a non-hydrostatic, σ-coorindate primitive equation model. RegCM4.0 has been developed by fortran-95 programming language. In addition it has four components such as Terrain, ICBC, RegCM, and Postprocessor.

REGCM4 Training Material: The following presentation provides a description on the RegCM4 model code, installation, structure and main steps to run the model. In addition it provides a description of tools and software for models output manipulation, visualization and interpretation:

RegCM4 model code, installation and run

Network Common Data Form: NETCDF data format user page

NETCDF Description: NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.

NETCDF Training Material: Data Format User Page: NETCDF data format user page

Main drivers for long-range climate prediction

Description: Climate change scenarios, General Circulation Models (GCMs') development way and current status, IPCC’s activities and reports, Regional climate models and other ways to predict regional, and RegCM4 model code, installation, structure, main steps to run model Description of tools and software for models output manipulation, visualization and interpretation.To view the material please click on the link below:

Training Material: Main drivers for long-range climate prediction and climate change scenarios

Credit:Nato Kutaladze

Setup and run WRF-Chem model over the south Caucasus domain

Description: How to set up and run the WRF (the meteorological driver) model and the WRF-Chem model over the south Caucasus domain. To view the material please click on the link below:

Training Material: Setup and run WRF-Chem model over the south Caucasus domain.

Credit: National Scientific Library, Tbilisi State University